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Berkeley Students Now Protesting Exams

Students at the University of California, Berkeley have been getting a lot of practice at protesting lately. Apparently, some of them think they're not getting enough practice though, so they decided to look for other reasons to demonstrate. At least that's the only real reason I've come up with for their latest nonsense.

"Leftist students at the University of California, Berkeley recently attempted to shut down their own mid-term exam, demanding a take-home exam in its place," Campus Reform reported.

A video posted on YouTube notes that four students demanded a “take-home essay with significant time to prepare” instead of the scheduled exam. Professor Harley Shaiken refused their request.

“This is a campus that is truly related throughout Latin America to the notion of free speech,” Shaiken said, according to Campus Reform. The comment was "followed by laughter from the protesters, who went on to claim that their 'well-beings are being put on the line because of the emotional, mental, and physical stress that this university is compounding with what is already going on in [their] everyday lives."

Campos Reform explained more: "'Have you ever checked "unlisted" or "undocumented immigrant"? I don’t think so!' one protester shouted at Shaiken, who wrote about and advocated for improved workers’ rights in Mexico, specializes in labor issues, and was presented in 1991 with the Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of California, San Diego."

Yet the protesters claim that he is unqualified to teach a class on labor issues in America and Mexico because he’s a white man, and went on to ask Shaiken to check his privilege.

In short, a white professor wants them to take their midterms in the same manner as practically every other professor in the nation wants, and thus he's wrong because he's "white."

Frankly, Shaiken was right to refuse their demands.

If these students are taking a class on labor issues in the U.S. and Mexico, it means this probably isn't their first college class. By now they know that midterms are the norm in many classes throughout the college. They know how this works.

Instead, they're trying to bully him because he's a white man teaching on a somewhat ethnic topic. They're demanding he "check his privilege" because they expect the white man to capitulate to their insane demands, and the fact that he won't is taken as proof of his racism. His credentials are irrelevant to the social justice jihadi. All that matters is that he's white and therefore wrong.

And these are the same people trying to understand the rise in racism?